Nested Parallel Call Optimization

  • Authors:
  • Enrico Pontelli;Gopal Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IPPS '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We present a novel optimization called Last Parallel Call Optimization (LPCO) for parallel systems. The last parallel call optimization can be regarded as a parallel extension of last call optimization found in sequential systems. While the LPCO is fairly general, we use and-parallel logic programming systems to illustrate it and to report its performance on multiprocessor systems.The last parallel call optimization leads to improved time and space performance for a majority of and-parallel programs. We also present a generalization of the Last Parallel Call Optimization called Nested Parallel Call Optimization (NPCO). A major advantage of LPCO and NPCO is that parallel systems designed for exploiting control parallelism can automatically exploit data parallelism efficiently.